SwiftNet Registration Authority (RA)
A Swift-registered body that identifies and authenticates an institution and the initial users of the SwiftNet Public Key Infrastructure (for example, an institution's security officer).
Swift offers an instant payments messaging service
The launch of the Swift instant payments messaging service for Europe in November 2018 will coincide with the launch of the pan-European real-time payments service being built by the European Central Bank (ECB)
UniCredit’s Wohlgeschaffen to join Swift’s Corporate Advisory Group
The Global Head of Trade Products at UniCredit shares his views on Swift's role in the corporate market.
CICI Utility sets strong foundation and prepares for continued growth in 2013
New York, NY - January 30, 2013 - The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) and Swift announced today that their global legal entity identifier (LEI) solution has progressed at a robust pace since its August, 2012 launch with more than 47,000 entities from 125 countries registered in the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Interim Compliant Identifier (CICI) database.
ISO in bytes: The voice of the Canadian community, a refined activation approach and your testing journey
Welcome to the 6th edition of ISO 20022 in bytes. In this edition, with just thirteen months until the go-live of CBPR+ and the Transaction Manager (TM), we’ll hear from Payments Canada about their journey as an RTGS to adopt HVPS+, the ISO 20022 market practices for payment market infrastructures. The CBPR+ programme is moving ahead at full steam, with the in-flow translation service set to become available for testing this November, and a refined transition period for next year’s move from…
Italian community highlights relevance of Swift in compliance
Milan conference confirms standardised solutions to common challenges will help Italian banks to meet compliance challenge.
Swift Securities View rapidly gains momentum in drive towards seamless post-trade settlement
Launched in January, Swift Securities View enables clear tracking across all steps of the settlement process
34 of world’s biggest institutions have signed up, representing 630 million securities transactions per year
Global participants include HSBC, BNY Mellon, and Nomura Asset Management
Swift Securities View gains rapid momentum in drive to reduce settlement fails
Over 50 of the world’s largest institutions have signed up for the new service that helps reduce settlement fails through clear end-to-end tracking across post-trade processing.
Banks see “clear potential and value” in Swift’s experimental CBDC connector after sandbox collaboration
Swift innovation enables CBDCs to move seamlessly on existing financial infrastructure and efficiently scale for international transactions across more than 200 countries
18 central and commercial banks encourage continued development after nearly 5,000 CBDC-to-CBDC and CBDC-to-fiat simulations over 12-week period
Swift will build beta version for further testing and explore additional use cases in securities settlement and trade finance
The need for rich data in a shared ledger paradigm
The concept of a new, universal shared ledger for digital payments and assets is gaining interest as a way of transforming how transactions are recorded and settled. When combined with a messaging layer, a shared ledger could create a powerful proposition capable of supporting the rich, structured data exchange needed for transactions in regulated assets or money.
New collaborative experiments explore more complex CBDC use cases
The results of our latest collaborative CBDC sandbox experiments are in, successfully demonstrating the use of CBDCs and other digital tokens across simulated digital trade, tokenised asset and FX networks, and payments.